An Extra’s POV

Looking at the five, they all had training attire on.

Brutus wore light armor, the age and luster of his equipment pretty glaring to an observant eye. Justin and Clark wore similar-looking armor, with the former's looking a lot lighter, while the latter had more bulk to it.

Belle and Lucielle had some Enchanted Items on them, and Belle still had a book in her hand, which made it clear they were most likely practicing Spells. While Belle had the attire similar to a student, Lucielle wore a Mage's cape,with her inner attire being a loose white shirt and long trousers.

Based on everything about their appearance, coupled with the slight looks of exhaustion on the faces of the three Otherworlders, it was easy to deduce that they were just finished with training.

Justin and Clark were with Brutus, while Belle was with Lucielle. They rendezvoused and decided to visit Alicia's room together.

~They come here every day, Master. Ever since she fell asleep and was admitted here.~

The moment Rey heard those words in his head, he felt a little startled and also slightly suspicious.

'Ater, you… did you know they would come here at this time, yet you didn't tell me beforehand?'

Rey's initial plan was to approach them after properly organizing his thoughts. However, that didn't mean he was actively avoiding them.

After all, once he sensed their presence approaching the room, he had more than enough time to leave. They wouldn't have spotted him at all.

But… he didn't.

Perhaps that was because, deep down, he just wanted to get things over with. He didn't want to run anymore, and he simply wanted to see how they would react to him after all this time.

And now…

'... It's the moment of truth, I guess.'

Rey watched as the three finally got over their shock and looked at one other. They nodded, clearly in agreement on something.

Then—

'Here it comes!'

—They finally stepped forward, entering the room while walking towards Rey.

They had serious expressions on their faces; a sharp contrast to the jolly reaction that Lucielle opened up with. Brutus had a fairly neutral expression on his face, and after apologizing for Lucielle's behavior and dragging her away from Rey, he was silent.

the Grand Mage away from him, and also for his

in his eyes. He simply stood in a corner, his hand tightly

seen each other in nearly

have any visitors during my coma. It was

his classmates were already right

was already taller than Belle, and about the same height as Justin. However, Clark still

slowly began to break as

he prepared his heart for whatever he would

our lives, Rey." Clark spoke up

that kind

Not from them!

when you did. Thanks…" Justin proceeded

Rey found this to be

minds of my classmates? Why are they being so nice to me?' He swiftly sent a message to the Familiar who stood a distance from him and watched everything unravel

course not! You already

truth, but that only made

are they saying this? Eric and Billy died because of my negligence. Adonis left… Alicia

only human nature to seek who to

and scorn of the humans, but

made them risk their lives. His carelessness caused so much

~If I may, Master…~

in his mind, just as Rey was about to listen

life that was lost due to your supposed carelessness,

chosen to escape without us. You got hurt so badly… and yet…" Belle's eyes were surprisingly teary

seen her this emotional. He probably didn't even know she was

for us

for my life for most of the

he could have indeed abandoned the Capital

But…

Alicia…' He clenched his fist and felt his

were over a hundred thousand people living in the Capital. Rey was no saint, but he understood enough about life to understand that

Especially when he could save

that Beast, I couldn't even escape any longer. It was after my

were going easy on